In this file photo, Orlando Cepeda greets fans during the Orlando Cepeda Day at 3Com park on Sunday, July 11, 1999.

Much to the chagrin of one of the Giants’ all-time greats, Coco Cepeda will wear a Dodgers uniform for his Pleasant Hill youth league baseball team. Orlando Cepeda’s grandson vows to wear a little bit of Giants orange hidden somewhere on his uniform.

Orlando Cepeda, a new member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, sits in a dugout and talks to reporters during a visit to the Giants spring training camp in Scottsdale, Ariz., Wednesday, March 3, 1999. Cepeda, the former San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals great was voted into the hall on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Orlando Cepeda finally received his Hall of Fame plaque Sunday during Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, NY. The Puerto Rican-born slugger broke into the majors with the Giants in 1958 during their first year in San Francisco. (Contra Costa Times/Karl Mondon/July 25, 1999)

Former San Francisco Giants baseball player Orlando Cepeda smiles during a ceremony to unveil a bronze statue in his honor outside of AT&T Park in San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Giant greats Gaylord Perry, left, and Willie McCovey, right, listen with big smiles to Orlando Cepeda during a pre-game celebration of Willie Mays’ 80th birthday before the San Francisco Giants played the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, May 6, 2011. (Dan Honda/Staff)

San Francisco Giants center fielder Andres Torres, left, talks with Giants Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, right, during the third inning of their spring training baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Scottsdale, Ariz., Friday, March 18, 2011. (AP Photo)

San Francisco Giants’ Angel Pagan (16) gets a hug from former Giants’ Orlando Cepeda before their game against the St. Louis Cardinals at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)

Nick Lammers/staff 3/3/99 Tribune Sports After making the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Giant Orlando Cepeda was flown to the Giants camp, shaking hands with Manager Dusty Baker.

FILE – In this April 15, 2008, file photo, from left, San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, former third baseman and manager Jim Davenport, and Hall of Famer Willie Mays stand over a plaque commemorating the San Francisco Giants 50th anniversary in San Francisco. Jim Davenport, a longtime third baseman for the Giants who later managed the team and worked in the front office, has died. He was 82. The Giants announced his death Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, saying he died Thursday night in Redwood City, Calif.,, because of heart failure. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Orlando Cepeda is honored before he throws out the first pitch as Japan takes on Puerto Rico in their Semifinal 1 game of the World Baseball Classic at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday March 17, 2013. (Susan Tripp Pollard/Staff)

Giants legend Orlando Cepeda waves to the crowd after throwing out the first pitch before a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. (Kristopher Skinner/ Contra Costa Newspapers)

“I must be getting ‘Punk’d.’ Best believe Coco will have on a Giants shirt under his uniform for good juju, and I’m not ordering pictures this year. … We got done dirty!”

Much to the chagrin of one of the Giants’ all-time greats, Ali Cepeda Jr. will wear a Dodgers uniform for his Pleasant Hill youth league baseball team. Orlando Cepeda’s grandson vows to wear a little bit of Giants orange hidden somewhere on his uniform. (Photo courtesy: Camille Cepeda)

Ali Cepeda Jr., 8, whose family calls him “Coco,” will be coached by a guy who grew up rooting for Tommy Lasorda and cheering for the likes of Ron Cey and Davey Lopes. The coach’s friend from high school even married Vin Scully’s daughter.

Orlando Cepeda, who turned 80 last September, knows the Giants-Dodgers rivalry as well as anyone. The Baby Bull made his major league debut against Los Angeles on April 15, 1958, the first Giants game ever played in San Francisco.

Cepeda homered in the fifth inning of that contest and remembers Pee Wee Reese telling him congratulations as he rounded second base. Those teams would go on to wage some of the most ferocious contests of the 1960s.

When Coco — let’s call him the “Grandbaby Bull” — called to tell his grandfather about his new youth league uniform, it did not go well.

“No playing for the Dodgers,” the seven-time All-Star told the boy, “unless they are paying you a major league salary.”

It’s all a bit of a funny accident for the coach, Phil Aghajanian, who was born and raised in Los Angeles. There was no draft, per se; Pleasant Hill Baseball Association organizers worked together to distribute the talent as evenly as they could, and handed Aghajanian a printout of his already set roster.

The original plan was for the team to be called the Rockies, but the longtime bleeder of Dodger Blue asked the league if he could make a switch.

“As you can imagine, there’s not a lot of people clamoring to be the Dodgers in the Bay Area,” Aghajanian said by phone on Wednesday. “The commissioner said: ‘No, no one has it. You’re it. I’ll change it in the system tomorrow.”’

Only later did Aghajanian learn that the Cepeda listed on his roster is a descendant of that Cepeda, the 1958 National League Rookie of the Year and Cooperstown-bound teammate of Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Gaylord Perry and Juan Marichal. After all, there are about 1,900 kids in the PHBA, which is a lot of last names to scrutinize.

“Once I was made aware of who it was, it’s become a point of fun for everyone,” Aghajanian said.

Pause.

“More fun for some of us, I guess.”

The good news is that Coco Cepeda is having a blast, even while wearing blue. Camille, who is married to Orlando’s son, Ali, said the kid is so obsessed with baseball that the only toys he plays with are bats, balls and gloves. Coco watches the MLB Network every night and hits off a backyard batting tee every day.

Coco especially idolizes players who, like his grandfather, are from Puerto Rico. He wants to be like Francisco Lindor of the Cleveland Indians, Javier Baez of the Chicago Cubs and — gasp! — Kike Hernandez of the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Coco named his puppy Kike.)

“That is only allowed because Kike is from Puerto Rico,” Camille said. “But no cheering for the team!”

The Pleasant Hill Dodgers have had only a few practices in advance of their Opening Day on March 3. But now that the initial shock and horror are over, it’s pretty clear things are going to work out just fine.

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“He’s clearly been tutored in the sport of baseball,” Aghajanian said. “He’s got good skills. He throws, fields, loves to be out there. Can hit the ball. I mean, his dad and his grandfather have instructed him well. He’s clearly been on a baseball field once or twice in his life.”

Daniel Brown is a sports writer for the Bay Area News Group known for his award-winning profiles on subjects ranging from Jerry Rice to Sergio Romo to Taylor Swift. The Cotati native is a graduate of UC Davis.